Morocco of Delacroix or The Representation of the Other

Authors

  • Amraoui Abdelaziz
Keywords: Travel, the Other, Ibn Khaldun, Moroccan, painting

Abstract

The Other, that unknown. Travelling in an unknown or mis-known land has always been an opportunity to meet this Unknown, subjecting him to the game of comparisons. Human beings, landscapes, culture, and customs; all are perceived in the light of a personal substrate, sometimes fed by superficial knowledge or impulses of the country to visit.

And when it comes to an account of a travel undertaken by a painter, Eugène DELACROIX, the pictorial joins the picturesque and the literary to give an image of the visible from the legible in an attempt to resuscitate the past from memories held as from different watercolors and travel diaries: a real dashboard.

From "Souvenir d’un Voyage dans le Maroc" (Delacroix 1999) or Memories of a trip in Morocco we will see how the account of a trip represents Morocco in its originality as seen by a stranger during the Reign of Sultan Moulay Abderrahman, not without common places and prejudices.

It will be question of the representation of what has been given to the visitor to see: population, religious practices, customs and, among others, this ancestral Moroccan value of Muslims and Jews living in harmony... and this with the eyes of a sensitive painter, initiating a career of Orientalism that he will never give up.

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Abdelaziz, A. (2012). Morocco of Delacroix or The Representation of the Other. Estudios Románicos, 21, 7–18. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/estudiosromanicos/article/view/166001
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